Line-up:

Drums: Chris Sharrock
Bass: Yolanda Charles
Acoustic & rhythm electric guitars: Mick Jagger & Ally McErlaine
Lead electric guitars: Dave Stewart
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick Jagger, Katy Perry, Kaya Jones & Royce Nelson
Keyboards: Mike Rowe
Programming: Ned Douglas
 

I thought I shook myself free
You see I bounce back quicker than most
But I'm half delirious, it's too mysterious
You walk through my walls like a ghost

And I take every day at a time
I'm as proud as a lion in his lair
Now there's no denying it, no decrying it
You're all tangled up in my hair

Old habits die hard
Old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
Harder than November rain

Old habits die hard
Old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
Hard enough to feel the pain

We haven't spoken in months
You see I've been counting the days
I dream of such inanities, such insanities
I'm lost like a kid in a maze

But I've never taken your calls
You see I put the block on my phone
I act like an addict, I just got to have it
I never can leave it alone

Yeah

And I can't give you up
Can't leave you alone
And it's so hard, so hard
And it's hard enough to feel the pain
Old habits die hard
 
 

TrackTalk

Doing a soundtrack, you don't have this complete freedom to write. You have to write a specific song around a specific character and enhance a specific scene. So it's very disciplined in that way... You have to look at other scenes and make these songs work in other scenes. For example, one of the lead songs on Alfie is Old Habits Die Hard, which is a rather happy-go-lucky tune when you first hear it. But when you put it in another scene and slow it down and take out some instrumentation, it becomes a much more romantic or sadder tune than it initially appears.

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